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Watershed Management: A Tool for Flood Mitigation in the Petra Area (Jordan)
Petra is located in the south-west region of Jordan about 200 km south of Amman between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra was carved in sandstone canyons by the Nabatean Arabs over 2,000 years ago. It is a major tourism attraction as its monuments are considered the jewels of Jordan. Floods pose a serious threat to the tourist activities in Petra as well as to Petra monuments themselves. To alleviate the impact of floods on tourism in Petra, different flood mitigation measures are proposed. The impact of these measures on flood peakflow and volume is evaluated. These measures include afforestation, terracing, construction of check and storage dams, as well as various combinations of these measures. A flood simulation model depicts reductions up to 70 percent in flood peakflows and volumes due to these flood mitigation measures.
Watershed Management: A Tool for Flood Mitigation in the Petra Area (Jordan)
Petra is located in the south-west region of Jordan about 200 km south of Amman between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra was carved in sandstone canyons by the Nabatean Arabs over 2,000 years ago. It is a major tourism attraction as its monuments are considered the jewels of Jordan. Floods pose a serious threat to the tourist activities in Petra as well as to Petra monuments themselves. To alleviate the impact of floods on tourism in Petra, different flood mitigation measures are proposed. The impact of these measures on flood peakflow and volume is evaluated. These measures include afforestation, terracing, construction of check and storage dams, as well as various combinations of these measures. A flood simulation model depicts reductions up to 70 percent in flood peakflows and volumes due to these flood mitigation measures.
Watershed Management: A Tool for Flood Mitigation in the Petra Area (Jordan)
Al-Weshah, Radwan A. (author) / El-Khoury, Fouad C. (author)
29th Annual Water Resources Planning and Management Conference ; 1999 ; Tempe, Arizona, United States
WRPMD'99 ; 1-11
1999-06-03
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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